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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
A stunning collection from international bestseller Stephen King that displays his phenomenally broad readership (stories published in The New Yorker, Playboy, and McSweeney's and including the 25,000 word story "Gingerbread Girl" published in Esquire).
Stephen King—who has written more than fifty books, dozens of number one New York Times bestsellers, and many unforgettable movies—delivers...
Stephen King—who has written more than fifty books, dozens of number one New York Times bestsellers, and many unforgettable movies—delivers...
3) Still me
Author
Series
Me before you volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
"Louisa Clark arrives in New York ready to start a new life, confident that she can embrace this new adventure and keep her relationship with Ambulance Sam alive across several thousand miles. She is thrown into the world of the super rich Gopniks: Leonard and his much younger second wife, Agnes, and a never-ending array of household staff and hangers-on. Lou is determined to get the most out of the experience and throws herself into her job and New...
4) The favor
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Language
English
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Description
With characteristic compassion and searing honesty, MEGAN HART weaves a shattering small-town story about what can turn brother against brother, and the kinds of secrets that cannot remain untold.
Janelle Decker has happy childhood memories of her grandma's house, and even lived there through high school. Now she's back with her twelve-year-old son to look after her ailing Nan, and hardly anything seems to have changed,
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Publisher
Words in the Works, LLC
Pub. Date
©2017.
Language
English
Description
It is late summer 1944. St. Tropez in the South of France. The German and Italian occupation of the town is finally over. French, American, and British troops are now in control but it will be a long time before life in this once sleepy fishing village returns to any kind of normality. Buildings have been destroyed by German bombing in the final days before their retreat. Lives have been shattered. Food is scarce and there is little money to buy what...
Author
Publisher
Words in the Works, LLC
Pub. Date
©2017.
Language
English
Description
"It was towards the end of World War Two, when ten, hope-filled days changed the lives of two special young people forever. George Rogers, a young British soldier from London’s rough and tumble East End, was among the troops sent to the South of France to help the locals return to their former lives and homes after four years of Italian occupying rule. Janine Juppet was a beautiful young French girl whose family traced their aristocratic lineage...
7) Influence
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Language
English
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When he graduates with his law degree, handsome and charismatic Langston Hudson is ready to hit the ground running as a lawyer with his family's firm, but a routine traffic stop during a night out with his friends quickly derails his plans and turns his world upside down. Langston and his friends are arrested after officers find half a million dollars' worth of drugs in his car. When Jacqueline Hudson learns of her son's arrest, she immediately begins...
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Series
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Bringing attachment theory essentials to everyday life.
A revolution is under way in how we understand the nature of relationships, how we develop in those relationships, and how our brains function synergistically in connection with others. This field is known as attachment theory, and until now most of the cutting-edge insights have been written in "researcher-speak" and reserved for neurologists, psychologists, and others in the healing professions.
Here...
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Language
English
Description
"Late one night, fate brings together DJ Aspirin and ten-year-old Alyona. After he tries to save her from imminent danger, she ends up at his apartment. But in the morning sinister doubts set in. Who is Alyona? A young con artist? A plant for a nefarious blackmailer? Or perhaps a long-lost daughter Aspirin never knew existed? Whoever this mysterious girl is, she now refuses to leave."--
Publisher
Elite Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
"Forty-seven of the most provocative and fresh voices of our generation give us the keys to transforming relationships from a source of grief and limitation to a celebration of self and other. Drawing together the most powerful wisdom of spiritual teachers, psychiatrists, anthropologists, educators, therapists, coaches, writers, and artists, this groundbreaking anthology presents the visions and ideas that form the gateway to transforming both spirituality...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Sophomore Frankie starts dating senior Matthew Livingston, but when he refuses to talk about the all-male secret society that he and his friends belong to, Frankie infiltrates the society in order to enliven their mediocre pranks.
Author
Series
Future shock trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Albert Whitman Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A story about rewriting your destiny in the city of dreams.
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Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Jeremy Harkiss, cheer captain and student body president, won't let coming out as a transgender boy ruin his senior year. Instead of bowing to the bigots and outdate school administration, Jeremy decides to make some noise--and how better than by challenging his all-star ex-boyfriend, Lukas for the title of Homecoming King? Lukas Rivers, football star and head of the Homecoming Committee, is just trying to find order in his life after his older brother's...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
After her former friend Leah dies in an automobile accident, Laine remembers their troubled relationship, dating back to elementary school when Leah convinced Laine to "practice" in the closet with her, and Leah controlled her every thought.
Author
Publisher
Азбука
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Russian
Description
Vladimir Nabokov used to say:"My head speaks English, my heart speaks Russian, my ear - French." This collection includes three major Nabokov novels, written by him in Russian: The Defense (1929); Invitation to a beheading (1936); Lolita (1955, 1959).--Supplied by publisher.
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English
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"Molly Canaday wishes she could repair her life as easily as she fixes cars. She was all set to open her own body shop in Last Chance when her mother ran off and left her to manage the family yarn shop instead. Now guided by the unsolicited-though well-intended-advice of the weekly knitting club, Molly works to untangle this mess. But her plan unravels when the new landlord turns out to be difficult-as well as tall, dark, and handsome. Simon Wolfe...